Or, you could accept CPU bottlenecking and ENJOY anyway.
Hi all,
I'm gonna get a HD 4870X2 2GB Graf Cad. I wanted to know weather to get any fans or coolers with it cause of temp. My current grpics card is a Nvidia GeForce 7600GS and average temp is 70 Celcius! The prob is its isn't and never has been overclocked...wtf?
Plz help.
All comments will be thanked!
Peace
<<Onafets>>
Or, you could accept CPU bottlenecking and ENJOY anyway.
What would you rather do - have an AWESOME videocard that your CPU can push at decent framerates with all the eye candy on in the rezzes you use -- (YES it will be CPU limited for top framerates, even the quads ARE on a 2560X monitor you don't have )
Or, maybe you should spend $200 instead of $500 on a much lesser card, that STILL BOTTLENECKS ON YOUR SYSTEM... THEN DO IT AGAIN WHEN YOU FINALLY UPGRADE YOUR SYSTEM BOARD, CPU AND RAM.... NO YOU SHOULD NOT !!!!
You can buy a $500 card then ? You might have wasted $200 bucks but so WHAT .... it's the entire net of massive guru head upgrade geeks that counsel you to do so.
The ANSWER hinges on what is your current monitor setup... I didn't look.
So, I still don't agree with the conventional wisdom, not one bit.
You should get the 4870x2 - and ENJOY the framerate and eye candy, with your cpu(cores/HT) cranking 100%... at your usual resolution... all the eye candy on is your hip bonus. (and maybe 1 or 2 jumps in playable resolution)
If you decide to UPGRADE the motherboard and cpu - in the future, you will have the vidcard and a GIANT framerate leap that will be satisfying. It will be worth it AGAIN.
An E8400 IS BOTTLENECKED AT 1024X768 with a 4870x2 - at like 50-60 fps with the eye candy maxxed. Bottlenecked MORE in crysis.
SO WHAT.
The nice thing about the 4870x2 is you can keep ONE GPU OFF if need be...
Until you spend a wad on a system upgrade - THAT WILL BE BOTTLENECKED AT HIGHER REZZES WITH THE 4870X2 ANYWAY!
No, the conventional wisdom IS NOT CORRECT. Sorry. It's not correct. It's not correct.
This is not spamming, this is not trolling, this is purely the truth, and please do not attack me for it.
If you don't get 4 raid zero sata3 drives going, your harddrive reduces in game framerates when you have to grab to load new map area or whatever - and loading into game...
Look, get the 4870x2, use it, enjoy it - turn up the eye candy , whatever, turn it down for a playable rate in 1600x1200 at 75hz if you have to for a playable framerate - or enjoy turned on full eye candy in MOST games at 1440x900 or 1080 - whatever.... use it in single core when you have to.
This advice( not mine ) given all over every site I've been to ( and that's a lot of em )
IS TOTAL HOGWASH IMO
I HAVE A REASON FOR SAYING THAT -
The reason is - what I recommend works. NO, you won't maxx the card fps in all rezzes(not even close), especially not 2560 - but then your monitor doesn't even do that does it ?
People have "problems" with rig jealousy and internet rig genius advice, and IMO don't really think it through all too well.
Oh what they say is NOT > " just flat out ridiculous" - sure it jibes with known facts....
But the point is yer 3.0 ghz dual core or HT will push the 4870x2 sufficiently for you for now.
DON'T go blowing dough on a lesser card - especially if you want the 4870x2.
what next if anything future *cheapo* up path > G31 or G35 pci-e 16x board $50.
CPU E5200 $75
2 gigs patriot ddr2800 $19
CURRENT prices at the egg....
NOW - yes that will drive the 4870x2 better with a bit of overclocking on the cpu - that goes up easily, most people wouldn't try to stop you with those components above ( they would still beat you senseless telling you they have a better rig or know you're cpu limited - but so is an E8400 - at "very low" rezzzes aka 1024x768 ) .
They will beat you senseless, dude, face it. They know so much....you must have only the very highest in all compnents... and they will tell you what they are...
Is it really worth NOT going 4870x2, and WASTING $200 bucks on something else ?
NO, it isn't, IMO, and I've said WHY. For $144 bucks (upgrade parts above) most people wouldn't scream that you need something better...
Have I made my point clearly enough ? I sure hope so. Long way around the barn, but hey, first time ANYONE here has heard it I'd say.
Here it is again - GET THE 4870X2 - and FORGET all the raging net crap about yer current rig.
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My pre-=apologies to all those who have shelled out enormous dollars to squeeze every last bit of framerate they possibly can out of the 4870x2 at insane resolutions long before others, I promise to spend ten minutes drooling in green jealousy over your rig sigs there, and run out to buy lottery tickets with some food stamps, so someday when I'm smart enough to build something, I can copy you. Really - I'm so green with envy I'm smashing my keyboard right now. Thank you for being so great.